RTCW "ET" CRASHING

(caveman) #1

Ok here’s the deal…i bought a new system “Intel daul core 2 - 2.13ghx , 2 gig ram 2X 256 geforce 7900 gtx SLi graphics cards”

installed rtcw ET patched it with 2.60 patch and the game crashes after about 2 min into joining a server…uninstalled it deleted folder and downloaded the 2.60 client same problem ,i thought it might be that ET can’t run under SLI so i disabled SLi but still get same problem…i looked at the error message generated by windows and it says there is an error with “ModName.DLL”

this error happens with all servers i tried to play on with and without ET mods

Can anyone help with this as i love to get playing ET again

(fattakin) #2

im sure you would!

i take it its a new install of Windows as well?

I dont recognise the error but i would pop over to www.evenbalance.com and download and run the auto punkbuster tool
i think its here
http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php
that should take care of pb

also connect to a etmain or etpro server initially before trying servers running other mods and see how you get on.

(caveman) #3

thx i’ll give that a try…i’ll post back if it does work or if it doesn’t work

(caveman) #4

the error is “pbcl.dll”

and yes i ran the pbsetup.exe from evenbalance ans still get errors

(kamikazee) #5

And for the record: it’s Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, not RtCW ET.

(Ragnar_40k) #6

AMD released the “AMD Dual-Core Optimizer” which fixes problems with dual core and some games. For some it resolved the problems with W:ET (e.g. with the server browser): http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_14098,00.html

AMD Dual-Core Optimizer - The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer can help improve some PC gaming video performance by compensating for those applications that bypass the Windows API for timing by directly using the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. Applications that rely on RDTSC do not benefit from the logic in the operating system to properly account for the affect of power management mechanisms on the rate at which a processor core’s Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is incremented. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer helps to correct the resulting video performance effects or other incorrect timing effects that these applications may experience on dual-core processor systems, by periodically adjusting the core time-stamp-counters, so that they are synchronized.

Don’t know if there something similar is available for Intel dual core CPUs.